JD Vance pushes lies about pet-eating migrants — then tells Dems to tone down their rhetoric

Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance has called on Democrats to rein in their use of “inflammatory political rhetoric” in the wake of the latest attempt on the life of the Republican presidential nominee, days after attracting criticism himself for spreading false claims about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating domestic pets in Springfield, Ohio.

“I do think that we should take this opportunity to call for a reduction in the ridiculous and inflammatory political rhetoric coming from too many corners of our politics,” the Ohio senator said during an address to the Georgia Faith and Freedom Coalition in Atlanta on Monday.

“Look, we can disagree with one another. We can debate with one another. But we cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and if he’s elected it will be the end of American democracy.”

He continued: “If you tell the American people that this person is the end of democracy, if you tell the American people that this person needs to be eliminated, most of them, thank God, are going to ignore you.

“But some crazy person is going to take matters into their own hands and actually listen to the crazy rhetoric that you’re putting out there.”

Vance was speaking a day after Secret Service agents had prevented a would-be gunman from potentially firing on Trump as he played a round of golf near his Mar-a-Lago home in West Palm Beach, Florida, the second attempt on the candidate’s life after he was shot in the ear by a sniper in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

The suspect — Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, a Hawaii construction company owner who had developed an obsession with the war in Ukraine — had concealed himself for hours in shrubbery in the hope of getting a clear shot at Trump before being